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There were many attempts to interpret《Ogamdo's》<Poem first> of Leesang. But any interpretation still does not seem to be proper. The reason must be, of course, because of the symbolism of <Poem first>. However it may be more attributable to the sloppy approaches to <Poem first>. This treatise analysed the syntactic structure of <Poem first> by priority, and achieved some noteworthy result. The different ways of interpretation were possible from the syntactic details of <Poem first> which was overlooked until now. The first interpretation was based on the intertextuality between Leesang’s <Poem first> and his other works. His pessimistic view of children in his other works seemed to be affected by Cocteau's《Les enfants terrible》. Due to the primary denotative interpretation of the symbolic poem <Poem first>, the secondary interpretation considered the context of <Poem first>’s emergence, reconstructed the semantics of <Poem first>, and interpreted the connatative meaning of <Poem first>. Consequently, the very meaningful sociological analysis was possible. Leesang was not only a bystander to his era. The most rewarding discovery of this treatise is the blood relation between <Poem first> and the French literary surrealism.

Leesang, 《Ogamdo》, <Poem first>, intertextuality, French Surrealism, 13 children, a literary coterie《The Ruins》